Motivational Quotes

Success

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Best Quotes about Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.